Several Chinese rivals have crossed the trillion-parameter mark, but ByteDance’s effort dwarfs all of them.
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Generation fell 8.1% in June to the weakest reading in seven years, while Eskom’s fleet ran better than at any point since 2017.
M-Net Movies 1, Mzansi Bioskop, Mzansi Music and KykNet Lekker close on 16 September as four sport channels launch.
Growth of more than 30% in Eutelsat’s low-Earth orbit satellite business has offset declines in its legacy video operations.
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Without accessible, affordable banking, SRD grant recipients will return to informal, cash-based systems.
Absa Group’s new CEO, Kenny Fihla, is aiming to turn the bank’s retail unit into the biggest in South Africa.
South Africa should embrace its own technological solutions before begging abroad, writes Sipho Dikweni.
South Africa has asked for more time to negotiate a trade deal with US President Donald Trump’s administration.
US President Donald Trump has accused Elon Musk of benefiting excessively from government EV subsidies.
Myriad factors have contributed to the “slow” adoption of digital payment rails in South Africa.
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Huawei has started pre-order sales of the the Mate60 Pro+, adding a new version to a series that has captured global attention.
Microsoft says it will defend buyers of its artificial intelligence products from copyright infringement lawsuits.
The US government has begun an official probe into an advanced made-in-China chip in Huawei’s latest smartphone.
Zoom has met with regulators to outline concerns about allegedly anticompetitive behaviour by Microsoft.
As South Africa enters its third day of blackouts, investors are still awaiting word from President Cyril Ramaphosa’s administration on how it’s going to fix the ailing state power company.
New research shows South African universities are good at producing academic papers, but not at translating them into innovations and patents. That needs to change.
